Meredith Kellner

Meredith is a strategist and interstitionary. She dreams of a world in which our institutions and systems reflect and support what we value most.
Meredith is especially drawn to opportunities to drive long-term system change. She advised The Rockefeller Foundation on earth system governance grant opportunities and was the lead synthesizer for the Future of Institutions dialogues co-hosted by The Rockefeller Foundation, New America, and Artha Global. She worked closely with the founding funders of the Trust for Civic Life philanthropic collaborative (the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Omidyar Network, Stand Together) to help bring that initiative from concept to launch, in partnership with two colleagues from her former firm Incandescent.
Meredith proudly seeks to help build awareness about the important role of “interstitionaries”: people who move in between, connecting dots across multiple organizations and networks to reveal overlaps, link aligned efforts, build new relationships, and amplify impact.
As a strategy consultant (previously with Katzenbach Partners and Incandescent), Meredith has worked with a wide range of organizations on their core strategies. Meredith also spent several years working in cleantech venture capital with VantagePoint Capital Partners, and she has served in operating roles with several impact-focused startup organizations, including The Rockefeller Foundation’s global initiative 100 Resilient Cities and WaterHealth International, which provided clean water in India and Africa.
Meredith earned an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She considers her greatest life education to have come from a year traveling alone through India, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific, China, Russia, and Europe.